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The origins of the Malagasy people, some certainties and a few mysteries
Maurizio Serva
The Malagasy language belongs to the Greater Barito East group of the Austronesian family, the language most closely connected to Malagasy dialects is Maanyan (Kalimantan), but Mal…
Effect of migration in a diffusion model for template coexistence in protocells
Jose F. Fontanari, Maurizio Serva
The compartmentalization of distinct templates in protocells and the exchange of templates between them (migration) are key elements of a modern scenario for prebiotic evolution. H…
Nonlinear group survival in Kimura's model for the evolution of altruism
Jose F. Fontanari, Maurizio Serva
Establishing the conditions that guarantee the spreading or the sustenance of altruistic traits in a population is the main goal of intergroup selection models. Of particular inter…
Extremely rare interbreeding events can explain Neanderthal DNA in modern humans
Armando G. M. Neves, Maurizio Serva
Considering the recent experimental discovery of Green et al that present day non-Africans have 1 to 4% of their nuclear DNA of Neanderthal origin, we propose here a model which is…
Genealogical trees from genetic distances
Luce Prignano, Maurizio Serva
In a population with haploid reproduction any individual has a single parent in the previous generation. If all genealogical distances among pairs of individuals (generations from…
Mitochondrial Dna Replacement Versus Nuclear Dna Persistence
Maurizio Serva
In this paper we consider two populations whose generations are not overlapping and whose size is large. The number of males and females in both populations is constant. Any genera…